The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-07-07
Fire destroyed the business portion oi
Pullman, WASH, Ter. Loss, $4,000 to
$50, 900; insurance about two-thirds.

Fire destroyed the business portion oi
Pullman, Wash, Ter. Loss, $75, ,ooo to
$50, 900; insurance about two-th'rds.
At Jefiersonville, Ind, Miss Sarah +.
Aldrich, a young lady ninteen years OF age.re'
ceived a pistol shot in the head from which
she has diei George Jetle, her suitor, who
was calling on her at the time, claims that
she committed suicide.
c., H. Pratts lumber mill at Prattsburg,
on the Omaha line, 40 miles south OF Ash
land was burned. Loss estimated w.
900 to $4,000; insurance $1,000 in ST.
Paul and Minneapolis.
At Alpine, Mich, Sheriff Lynch and
posse arrested three desperadoes Tor whom
a reward OF $4,000 is said to be offered.
They are wanted in Ravenna, Ohio. Sheriff
Lynch was shot In the leg, but not danger.
ously wounded. One Of the prisoners tried
to commit suicide soon after being captur'
ed.
David Armstrong, OF Jackson. Ohio, has
been selected for receiver OF the Fidelity
holds the position OF cashier OF the First
Nationei Bank OF Jackson.
Gen. F. William Smith, thirty-f five years
OF age, general passenger agent Of the
Grand Trunk railroad, died suddenly
while sitting at his desk in his office In
New York. ..--...
VII. Hoard, pastor Of Mt. Zion NJ. f.
church OF Charleston, s. C., complains to
the interstate commission: He and sev-
eral members OF his congregation, having
purchased first tickets over the
Georgia railroad from Atlanta to Charles
ton, were forbidden entry to the first class
coaches and compelled to ride in a dirty
and uncomfortable car, one-half OF which
was a smoking car.
Milton Evans Of Walla Walla, Wash,
complains to the commission Of the Ore
gon Railway and Navigation company for
charging 30 cents per 100 p ounds on wheat
from Walla Walla to Portland, which rate
he thinks extortionate,
Tronhle among the original settlers OF
the Maxwell land grant is brewing, and q
call for an armed resistance has been pub
lished in Ration, N. NJ.
Lieutenant and Acting Governor Smith,
Of Illinois, left Chicago without signing the
pleuro- pneumonia and other bills left by
Gov. Oglesby, and they will become laws
without executive approval.
The Genesta has won the Jubilee yatnh
race. Her time over the course was II
days 16 hours and 81 minutes.
A match race between the Thistle and
Trey was sailed over the Northern Watch
club course. The Thistle took the lead at
start and at the end of twenty miles was
81 minutes ahead OF her opponent.
The eighth annual four.mie straight
away race between eight-oared crews rep
resenting Harvard university and Column
bia college was rowed en- the Thames river
at New London course from Gates river to
Winthrop Point, and proved to be one of
the most hotly contested races ever rrowed,
both crews beating the record OF 20 min
utes and 81 seconds, made by Yale in 1884.
The replies OF the Manitoba and Omaha
and other Northwestern railroads in the
indemnity withdrawal matter are made
public.
Myron Brown, @ well known St. Paul
man, falls dead in the Nicollet no use, Min
peapolis.
The Iowa supreme court decides that a
city has no right to grant the exclusive
use OF its streets to railroad company.
The Cornell university trustees have
sold the pine on 25. 900 acres of land in
Ashland county, Wis, securing a good
sum for the university,
The annual sale OF Erdenheim and Elless-
lie and other yearlings the property of N.
w. Kittson, and ]. r. Hancock, took place
in New York. Many prominent sporting
men were present, but the prices obtained
were not very heavy. Fiity-eight youngs-
ters in all were sold.
Richard X. Fox has received a telegram
from the editor OF the Sporting Life OF
Jake Williams challenge to fight Tor the
championship Of the world. He names
the continent as the battle ground and
SO, 500 side as the stakes, with $500 as
expenses.
The uprising of the Apaches in Arizona
terminates in the surrender OF the hostile
band.
Patrick Fond says there Is no truth in
the report that the Vatican was to investi.
gate the condition OF the Irish people.
Ex-Gov Ansou P. Morrill, suffered par
tial stroke OF paralysis at Augusta. Me-,
while driving in carriage. He is able to
move his limbs and converse and his ply
scians have hopes that he will recover.
He is "a years old.
Secretary Endicott has returned to his
duties, and his acts, as well as his words,
| make it clear that be has no intention OF
retiring from the cabinet. Mr.. Endicott
has undoubtedly performed the duties of
his office to the satisfaction OF the presi
dent.
The executive committee OF the Cornell
university trustees completed and for
warded contract disposing OF the pine
timber on about twenty-five thousand
acres of land in the Penokee Group, Ash
land county, Wis. The amount received
| for this timber is over half a million dol.
| lars, and the university will now have the
| income from that very handsome sum
| The university still owns the land from
which the timber Is to be cut. 1t is full ol
iron and very valuable.
Rev. DR.. Edward McGlynn intends to
become a knight OF Labor and to work
hereafter in the interest of that organiza-
| tion a part OF his time at least, with a
view OF disseminating his land theories.
The Northwestern Indian commission,
which since last August, has been visiting
the various tribes Of the Northwest with
the view OF securing their settlement on
reservations, has returned. They visited
81 bands in Minnesota, Montana, Idaho
and Washington, and Travelled over TO-,
| 900 miles by rail, 500 in wagons, 400 in
canoes and 1900 in sleighs. They reached
| agreements with 81 bands and obtained
cessions OF more than 25, 700, 900 acres o.
land valuable for timber, metals and agri-
cultural uses. The commission was not
| able to induce the Bois Fort Chippewas tc
remove from Nett Lake, Wis, to either the
| White Earth reservation in Minnesota OF
any OF the Wisconsin agencies. The In
dians claimed that the former treaty stip
ulations had not been kept, that the whites
| we're making big money out of their lands
which were rich in ore, and that they were
well clothed and fed now and didn't wisl
to move at all. No better success wa,
reached with the 800 Chippewas at Crane
Marais.
| The queen. In commemoration other jubi
lee, gave gold medals to her royal visitors
| and silver medals to their attendants.
Ralph Beaumont OF Elmira, N. Y, il
prominently mentioned as o candidate iol
general master workman, Knights Of La
Dor, in the event OF Powderly's declining
to serve another term.
Miss Eugenia Ozanne Of Denver, Col, Il
said to be the most beautiful woman II
the west. She is OF Mexican parentage
and is worth quarter Of @ million.
Gen. Fitz John Porter is reported to b.
critically i'll.
Justin Mccarthy writes that there Is no
the slightest truth In any report about
Mr.. Parnell retiring from political lie. TIL,
| NntiOna1iete he says have never talked